Quotes

[on her life before her vocation] It was not a lifelong dream. I did not grow up wanting to be a nun. I wanted to be an actress. If it had ever been suggested I would one day be a nun, it would have been the last thing on my mind. It was a million to one shot I would ever be a nun.

[on her life since becoming a nun] I have struggled with this call to vocation all my life. I can understand why people have doubts, because who understands God? I don't. When you are dealing with something at this level, you are dealing with mystery.

I'd done two movies with Elvis Presley. I'd been around Hollywood for a while - and saw how needlessly competitive and negative it could be. It never held my interest.

(When asked how she could go from kissing Elvis to becoming a nun): How much closer to Heaven can you get?

I just knew that this was what God wanted from me. I never felt I was 'walking away from Hollywood'. I felt I was walking into something more significant and by that, I took Hollywood with me.

[when asked what it was like to kiss Elvis Presley onscreen in Loving You] I think the limit for a screen kiss back then was something like 15 seconds. That one has lasted 40 years.

I adored Hollywood. I didn't leave it because it was a place of sin.